The Western Professional Hockey League was announced earlier in 2021 as a new professional hockey league, taking aim at providing a Single-A level of hockey in the western United States. The league took its next step towards their inaugural season as they announced a new team playing out of Billings, Montana.
The return of professional hockey to Billings would end a 35-year-plus drought for a professional team in city, and will be owned by Pick Six Entertainment, who is responsible for a new arena football team, the Billings Outlaws, that are slated to begin play in spring 2022.
Billings becomes the league’s first team announced that will play in the inaugural season. The league had previously announced the Las Vegas Millionaires on the league’s website, but the team will not participate in the 2022-23 season.
The team is holding a name-the-team contest through December to name the team, and has four options to choose from out of the Montana Magic, Montana Magma, Billings Bullheads, and Billings Roughnecks. Voting can be done through the team’s placeholder website at billingsprohockey.com.
Additional team announcements are expected by the WPHL as they hope to have teams in Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico and Kansas for a total of 6-8 teams to begin. The league has stated that they will be a 21-years-old and older league, with the intention of having three local players on each team’s roster.
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